Monday, January 29, 2024

GREY....

"When the wind strays, fog's mantle is grey, on barren muddied days..." -Stewart Stafford
"The rain. It comes. The rain beats upon my brow, as it sings to me.." -R Raphe
"It seems to leave the darkness blacker than before..." - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ( Hound of the Baskervilles)
                                       "Sweet breath, wind, fog...." -Stewart Stafford
"You make autumn mist taste like champagne..and turn winter rain into elixir itself.." - Sanober Khan
"The mist  winds around the fog, and the fog winds around the mist and they dance.." - R. Raphe
"A hound it was, an enormous coal black hound, butnot such a hound as mortal eyes had ever seen.." -Conan Doyle ( Hound of the Baskervilles)
"From the low curves of a wood there rose in the distance  a grey, melancholy hill..." - Conan Doyle ( Hound)
"God is here, at our side. we can see him in this mist....His angels keep watch while we sleep..." -Paulo Coelho
                                                     "Spirit Dancing..." - Aspen Matis
"When the mist is so thick that we can't even see our own hands, sometimes we must be still.." -Shellinn Lubin
"Throw some further light on these dark places..."- Conan Doyle ( Hound)
"Outside, shadows drew their dark capes.....like ghosts come to ply the tender flesh of the living..." -Alistair Cross
"By the dusky moorland..." -Ruth Ann Oskolkoff
"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable,  must be the truth..." -Conan Doyle ( Hound of the Baskervilles)
                                    "Fog, borne of fatigue..." -M. Klebber-Diggs
"When the fog finds its way and leaves you, you will find your way too..." -Mehmet Murat Idan
"And when the fog lifts, you shall find  your way home...."-R, Raphe
Photographs 2024

 

Thursday, January 25, 2024

COLD..........

WINTER by SARA TEASDALE (1884-1933)
I shall have winter now
and lessening days.............
Lit by a smoky sun with slanting rays,
And after falling leaves,
the first determined frost.
The colour of the world will all be lost.
So be it........
the faint buzzing of the snow
Will fill the empty boughs,
And after sleet storms
I shall wake to see
A glittering glass plume of every tree.
Nothing shall tempt me from my fire-lit house.
And I shall find at night a friendly ember
And make my life of what I can remember................
"A cold wind was blowing from the north..."-Game of Thrones
                                                    "There is mystery unfolding..."- Vera Nazarian
Photographs 2024


 

Sunday, January 21, 2024

LET WINTER IN.....

"It is the life of the crystal the fire of the frost , the soul of the sunbeam..." -John Burroughs
                                                 Childhood............
"Snow can awaken memories of things more wonderful  than anything you ever knew or dreamed...." -Frederick Buechner
                                                          Endless.......
"Winter is a time for comfort. A time for home..."- Edith Sitwell
                                                         Silently........
                                            "As ever. The silent snow..." -Andre Aciman
                                                              Softer......
"Christmas snow can never disappear completely....." 

                                                                                        - Santa Claus, from "Frosty the Snowman"

                                                           Flurry......
"A light snow touches a cheek like butterfly kisses...." -Imran Shaikh
                                                           Magic....
"A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky ,and  becomes a thing of wonder..." -Susan Orlean
                                                             Hear......
                      "The snow fell as softly as poet's tears....." -Kevin Ansbro
                                                               Capture.....
"Snow was falling so much like stars..."   Mary Oliver
                                                        Gentle......
"The sky was clear,  the stars hung  high overhead, the coating of snow on the ground looked bright in the moonlight...." 

                                                                                                                -Danielle Renee Wallace

"Take time to look. Take time to see. Let winter in..." 

                                                                                                               - R. Raphe


 Photographs 2024